Arts Education grants support local cultural organizations and/or teaching artists in providing meaningful arts education for K-12 public school students up to and including senior adults.
Donor Name: Genesse Valley Council on the Arts
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/04/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
Funds support arts education projects for closed groups of learners. All AE projects must be carried out in partnership with a public school or in partnership with an existing closed group of learners such as a club, residents of a senior living facility, individuals receiving social services, or a camp.
Funding Categories
The Arts Education category offers two funding strands:
- Pre-K-12: In-School or After-School Projects
- These projects must take place in-school during the school day or After-School. In-School and After-School projects must be done in partnership with a public school.
- AE regrant funds must not replace, or appear to replace, the role of certified arts teachers in schools.
- Inter-curricular collaboration for in-school projects is encouraged but not required.
- A letter of commitment from the partner school to the arts organization or artist must be included with the application to be eligible for funding. The letter of commitment must outline in detail the partner(s) support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and anticipated roles and responsibilities for each partner involved. The partnership letter should be on the partner(s) letterhead and signed by the principal.
- Priority is given to projects that include:
- Participation of the school’s certified art, music, dance, and/or theater teachers in addition to the non-arts teacher(s).
- Projects which incorporate professional development activities for school staff (ex: grant seminar).
- Projects that show strong ongoing district support.
- Projects that make use of community resources, resource persons, and other agencies: profit and non-profit.
- Projects that stress process over product—those that involve students in the creative process are preferred over projects in which adults control a finished product.
- Projects with inter-curricular collaboration.
- Community-Based Learning (K-12 through Senior Adults)
- Projects may take place in a community-based setting, such as a library, school, community center, or arts organization.
- Projects are provided to a closed group of learners, meaning they are not open to the general public. These groups may be composed of a particular age group (including adult learners) or for participants of all ages.
- A letter of commitment from the partner arts organization or artist must be included with the application to be eligible for funding. The letter of commitment must outline in detail the partner(s) support of the project (monetarily and otherwise) and anticipated roles and responsibilities for each partner involved. The partnership letter should be on the partner(s) letterhead and signed by the director of the partner organization.
Funding Information
Applicants may submit up to three applications in any combination of categories (Community Arts, Artists in Education, and Individual Artist) totaling no more than $5,000. Arts Education Grants are awarded in the amount of $500- $5,000. There is no funding match requirement. The proposed project must take place within the same county as the applicant’s legal address.
All Arts Education projects must provide:
- Activities centered on the development and implementation of sequential, skills-based study that incorporates one or more art forms and includes a minimum of 3 sequential hands-on learning sessions. Contact sessions are separated by enough time for reflection and refining.
- In-depth, age and skills appropriate learning opportunities
- Hands-on, participatory creation and/or learning opportunities in one or more art forms that may culminate in exhibitions, productions, or demonstrations
- Stated learning goals, methodologies, and outcomes and a means for evaluation
- Support materials must include lesson plans, evaluation plans, video/photo work samples of past Arts Education work, participant evaluation forms, and letters of recommendation.
- Documentation and evaluation must be considered from the beginning and integrated into the project plan and budget
Funding Information
Arts Education Grants are awarded in the amount of $500- $5,000.
Grant Period
Project to take place between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for an Arts Education Grant, applicants must:
- All applicants must be working with an eligible partner school for in-school programs. Eligible applicants may apply directly for out-of-school programs.
- A 501(c)(3) or New York State non-profit organization with an active board of trustees either incorporated in NY State or registered to do business in NY State
- A government or quasi-governmental entity, or Tribal Nation
- Individual artists, groups or collectives, and unincorporated entities who are working with an eligible partner school (for in-school programs) or eligible fiscal sponsor or community partner if accepted by your SCR site (for out-of-school programs).
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- Lead applicants must be 18 years of age at the time of submission and may not be enrolled in a full-time undergraduate degree program.
- Projects must take place in the same county as the fiscal sponsor or community partner.
- If an individual artist or unincorporated group is working with a public school that is out of their county of residence, the applicant must have a nonprofit fiscal sponsor in the county of the public school where the project is to take place.
For more information, visit GVCA.
